﻿This file 01_ReadMe_2025_Hedi_Kyle_blizzard_box_template_01_tray.txt was generated on 2026-1-06 by JANA DAMBROGIO.


GENERAL INFORMATION


1. Title of Dataset:
"01_2025_Hedi_Kyle_blizzard_box_template_01_tray”, Harvard Dataverse.


2. Caption: 
Template: Crease pattern for Hedi Kyle’s Blizzard box from one sheet of paper. 


3. Alt text: 
Zine or artists’ book template. Folding pattern for Hedi Kyle’s blizzard box template for one tray can be made out of a single sheet of paper. The image contains a series of criss-crossing lines, identifying the final crease pattern once the sheet has been folded. 


Each template includes a key for the user to understand the line patterns, which indicate when to fold the paper to create peaks away from or toward the table, when to tuck, or when to use a piece of tape. The Unlocking History Research Group developed a standardized system that assigns each feature a color and a unique line pattern. Their system makes each feature accessible and ensures that the folding templates are still legible if reproduced in black and white. These features may include:


Mountain: Marked by magenta-colored repeating parallel line pattern, a crease that points upwards when the sheet is laid flat. When unfolded the crease looks like a mountain.   


Valley: Marked by blue-colored short-dotted pattern, a crease that points downwards when the sheet is laid flat. When unfolded the crease looks like a valley. 


Tuck: Marked by diagonal black lines, an area that indicates when something is inserted into a pocket. 


Number: No circles, a step.


Number with one circle: Fold and unfold. 


Number with two circles: Fold and keep folded.


Number with circle and opened end: Fold back and forth.


Other textual information includes  a CC symbol signifying a Creative Commons license, and symbols that communicate rules to reuse this content: attribution required, and reuse can be non-commercial only.


4. Author Information
  A. Principal Investigators Contact Information
        Name: Wunsch Conservation Laboratory Staff, Department of Distinctive Collections, and Rotch Architecture and Planning Librarian,
        Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
        Email: conservationlab@mit.edu  
        
5. Date of data collection (single date, range, approximate date):
2022–2025.


6. Geographic location of data collection:
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America.


7. Information about funding sources that supported the collection of the data:
The Massachusetts Institute of Technologies Libraries.


SHARING/ACCESS INFORMATION


1. Licenses/restrictions placed on the data:
Copyright © 2025-02-November MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License except where otherwise noted.


2. Links to publications that cite or use the data:
N/A.


3. Links to other publicly accessible locations of the data:
https://www.artofthefold.com/


4. Links/relationships to ancillary data sets:
We adopted the feature key used to make the templates to symbolize mountain crease, valley crease, tuck, and tape from the Unlocking History Research Group’s key to read substrate maps of locked letters found in https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/uh in Letterlocking: The Hidden History of the Letter By Jana Dambrogio and Daniel Starza Smith, 
with the Unlocking History Research Group and http://www.letterlocking.org.


5. Was data derived from another source?
Yes, Hedi Kyle's invention, the blizzard box made of multiple connected trays. See Hedi Kyle and Ulla Warchol's book The Art of the Fold for more information and a step-by-step guide.


6. Recommended citation for this dataset:
Kyle, Hedi; Warchol, Ulla; Dambrogio, Jana; Araya, Nicole; ​​and Kai Alexis Smith. Edits to template: Caroline Chea, Ariana Rutledge. MIT Libraries, “Zine or artists’ book template: Hedi Kyle’s blizzard box: template for one tray", https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/zinetemplates, Harvard Dataverse.


DATA & FILE OVERVIEW
1. File/Dataset List:
*File. 01_2025_Hedi_Kyle_blizzard_box_template_01_tray https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/5R8CHO


2. Relationship between files, if important:
Each template can be found in a dataset that contains the following files. Subsequent versions of files follow the same format:
* PNG files (various published versions) 
* TIFF files
* accessible PDF files  (various published versions) contains a caption for the respective version of the template in the PNG file
* ReadMe file (s) for each published version.


3. Additional related data collected that was not included in the current data package:


4. Are there multiple versions of the dataset?
No.


METHODOLOGICAL INFORMATION


1. Description of methods used for collection/generation of data:
N/A.


2. Methods for processing the data:
N/A.


3. Instrument- or software-specific information needed to interpret the data:
N/A.


4. Standards and calibration information, if appropriate:
N/A.


5. Environmental/experimental conditions:
N/A.


6. Describe any quality-assurance procedures performed on the data:
* The team used Adobe Acrobat Accessibility and “Use guided actions” (formerly action wizard), tools to pass a series of tests to verify that the PDF documents pass as accessible PDFs 
* The team met with MITs Accessibility Office to review a selection of our files and check the accessibility of the documentation. 


7. People involved with sample collection, processing, analysis and/or submission:
Author of design: Hedi Kyle.
Illustrations created by Jana Dambrogio and Kai Alexis Smith, 2022–2024.
Feature identification system and key found on crease pattern templates created by: Nicole Araya and Jana Dambrogio, and the Unlocking HIstory Research Group, 2020.
Edits to template: Jana Dambrogio, Ariana Rutledge, Caroline Chea, and Kai Alexis Smith, 2022–2025.
ReadMe files edited by Jana Dambrogio and Kai Alexis Smith, 2022–2025.


8. STYLE GUIDE – TECHNICAL INFORMATION
Vision-accessible HEX color values, line pattern, and meaning
* EC008C – magenta parallel-line pattern (mountain fold)
* 00AEEF – blue, dot pattern (valley fold)


9. Acknowledgments
Thank you to the Accessibility office at MIT, especially Kate Quinn, Mary Ziegler, and Rich Caloggero, Harvard Dataverse Staff.


10. Key Words
Collections, libraries, archives, distinctive, conservation, preservation, cultural, heritage, PDF-accessible, Zines, Contemporary, Artists’ Books, Books, handmade books, accessibility, inclusive design, alt text, instructional foldable, templates, 1-page book, bookbinding, origami, letterlocking, architecture, mountain, valley, tuck, crease.
Updates added: 6 November 2025